Description of a Dislocation of the Head of the Femur, Complicated with its Fracture

Abstract

A WOMAN, et. 35,of rather short stature, was brought into Guy's Hospital on account of the following injuries, the infliction of which she survived a few minutes only.Tile skull was broken, and the brain lacerated.She had fallen from a second-floor window of a house on to the pavement, the height of wbich, from the ground, was from twenty to twenty-five feet.After death it was observed that the left leg was slightly shorter than the right, and tbe whole limb inverted; the left great toe rested on the inside of the dorsum of the right foot, and there was considerable fulness in the left gluteal region.On rotation of the left leg slight crepitus could be felt in the region of the hip-joint.When the gluteus maximus muscle was reflected the head of the bone was seen lying upon the posterior border of the